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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61082
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 8 FEDORA-2008-4604 (kvm)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to kvm
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-4604.

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution
for Linux on x86 hardware.

Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux
or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware:
a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.

ChangeLog:

* Tue May 27 2008 Glauber Costa - 60-6.fc8
- Fix Cirrus heap overflow vulnerability (#448524)
* Fri May 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange - 60-5.fc8
- Put PTY in rawmode

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #237342 - CVE-2007-1320 xen/qemu Cirrus LGD-54XX bitblt Heap Overflow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237342

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update kvm' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-4604

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.2

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-1320
BugTraq ID: 23731
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23731
Debian Security Information: DSA-1284 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1284
Debian Security Information: DSA-1384 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1384
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00082.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00706.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00935.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:203
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:162
http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf
http://osvdb.org/35494
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10315
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0323.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25073
http://secunia.com/advisories/25095
http://secunia.com/advisories/27047
http://secunia.com/advisories/27085
http://secunia.com/advisories/27103
http://secunia.com/advisories/27486
http://secunia.com/advisories/29129
http://secunia.com/advisories/30413
http://secunia.com/advisories/33568
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2009:002 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00004.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1597
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